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Tutorial or best practice for a simple car script

Discussion in 'Getting Started' started by plumsklo, May 15, 2017.

  1. plumsklo

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    Hey,

    i'm really new to unity and i'd like to create a very basic car in my game. I've looked for a good tutorial to show me how to move the car with all it's features like spinning wheels or changing the angle of the wheels when turning.

    I've already looked for a few tutorials online and noticed a lot of different ways to achieve it.
    What i'd like to know wha tis the best practice to create a simple car.
     
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  2. JoeStrout

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    Honestly, best practice is to purchase a vehicle asset (I use Edy's Vehicle Physics). Doing it from scratch and getting it right is really hard — vehicles are a lot more complicated than they seem (and the built-in WheelCollider pretty much sucks).
     
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  3. plumsklo

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    Ah that's really bad because it's a project for a university course and we aren't allowed to buy complete assets.
    And sadly so far i found a lot of different ways to create a simple car but i kinda have the feeling that they aren't really best practice. Especially if i redo the "tutorial" and the example doesn't work as it should.
     
  4. Schneider21

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    If it's for a school project, just do your best with creating your own. Joe's advice was based on the assumption you wanted a good production-ready solution.

    Are you required to have a simulated vehicle in your project? If not, I'd strongly recommend changing your project focus to be about something else less intense.
     
  5. DominoM

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  6. plumsklo

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    Yeah i think this might work.
    Thank you.
     
  7. karen_ann

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    the best car script I know is the unity-made one that just came out, check it out!
     
  8. RamonGiovane

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    link??